Joe,
I don't know your skill level, but I can tell you that Nocal for me was a source of *major* frustration when I started flying it. For whatever reason, I find them very hard to fly. The only one I've ever had that flew right off the board is my current Cassutt. Its predecessors took quite a while to trim. Flew great once trimmed, but good grief it was hard. Same story on the Cessna Cardinal I tried, the Mr Smoothie (my first nocal, and one which one me a loooong list of contests, but which was an utter pain in the neck to trim). I also built a Hosler Fury...yeah...well it flew good eventually. And then it promptly went OOS in a thermal.
The good fliers (Don S and Larry Loucka come to mind) can make Nocals fly to the right. I have never been able to get consistent results with this pattern. They clearly know something I don't, and I expended a lot of information trying to figure it out with zero success.
I think at the end of the day, I wouldn't have ever taken up Nocal were it not for the fact that my club flies them. I kinda enjoy them now. My wife definitely wouldn't have taken them up if I hadn't been flying them, and she does find them rather frustrating.
Dunno what any of that meant...maybe the summary is that I hate nocal less than I used to, at least less enough that I actually fly them?
-jf
Received on Mon Jun 13 2016 - 10:48:07 CEST
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